When I was 20 years old I thought; 30 was old 40 was ancient over 50, well so long, nice knowing you Now that I’m over 50 my attitude has changed since my ‘younger days’ . Age is something that I don’t often think about and it is no barrier to maintaining or starting a […]
Stand By Me
One of my all time favourite songs is Ben E. King’s ‘Stand By Me’. He co write the song with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stollers and released it in 1961. Here’s the original song sung by Ben E. King. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_k9vTMa65o[/youtube] Now listen to the international version from the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through […]
92 Years Young
Just finished watching an inspiring interview with 92 year old movie actor Ernest Borgnine. He is still active despite his age and for those who are old enough to remember Borgnine was McHale in the 1960’s television hit series McHale’s Navy. He won an academy award for his role in ‘Marty’, 1956 and he appeared […]
Northern Exposure – Light
One of my favourite TV shows of the early 90’s was and still is Northern Exposure. Here’s a well written, poetic piece on ‘light’ and great visuals and song to go with it from one of the episodes. I discovered this clip from Lawrence of TanDaoKungFu when he posted it on twitter. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TPMoP01Sc[/youtube]
